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Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations — The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows —The individual responsible …
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Code name ‘Verax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks — He alluded to other options, aware that he had secrets of considerable financial value, but said, “I have no desire to provide raw source material to a foreign government.”
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| Business Insider: |
29-Year Old NSA Whistleblower Makes Mindblowing Claims About What Kind Of Power He Had — After a week of bombshell revelations regarding U.S. spy agency the NSA, the newspaper The Guardian has revealed its source. The man claiming to have leaked all of the information is Edward Snowden …
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| Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: |
Spy Whistleblower Comes Forward, Says “NSA Routinely Lies” — The NSA whistleblower who exposed America's massive spying operation has come out and taken an interview with the leak reporter, The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald. “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.
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| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret — In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security …
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| Globes Online: |
Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3b — The acquisition of the Israeli navigation app and traffic report start up will be completed after months of speculation involving Google, Facebook and Apple. — Sources inform “Globes” that Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) will acquire Waze Ltd. for $1.3 billion.
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Tweets: @howardlindzon and @spencerchen
| AllThingsD: |
This Time It's Real: Google to Buy Waze And Keep It Independent — Google is very close to acquiring Waze, the crowd-sourced navigation app, according to two sources close to the situation. — While no deal has been inked yet, the acquisition is likely to be finalized in the coming days … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
AT&T extends upgrade period to two years, continues a worrying trend — The big US carriers tend to echo each other's customer-hostile policy decisions all too often, and that's unfortunately happening once again. Effective today, AT&T is shadowing Verizon by extending its standard device upgrade interval …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
WWDC 2013 Expectations … 12 months later, here we are, on the cusp of WWDC 2013, and nobody outside Apple seems to have any idea what Apple is set to show tomorrow. Cook's words to Mossberg were anything but empty. The most secretive company in the industry got more secretive.
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Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, MacRumors, New York Times, The Verge, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, AllThingsD and Business Insider. Tweets: @joshuatopolsky
| Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair: |
The Changing and Terrifying Nature of the New Cyber-Warfare — On the hidden battlefields of history's first known cyber-war, the casualties are piling up. In the U.S., many banks have been hit, and the telecommunications industry seriously damaged, likely in retaliation for several major attacks on Iran.| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
Apple VP Eddy Cue's double billing: On stage and in federal court — Between WWDC and the e-book antitrust trial, Apple's digital dealmaker has a busy week. — FORTUNE — If the trade press reports are true, Eddy Cue will take the stage Monday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference … Sponsor Posts
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